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Extracts:
Giants in History, Myth, and
Legend
Australia
Bathurst
In fossil in the 1930's deposits
found around Bathurst from a depth of 6
feet below the surface a fossil
lower back molae tooth was found. The owner
would have been at least 25 ft.
tall. Also found were huge stone artifacts
-- clubs, pounders, adzes,
chisels, knives and hand axes all of tremendous
weight, scattered over a
wide area weighing from 8 to 25 pounds, implements
which only men of
tremendous proportions could possibly have made and used.
Estimates for the
actual size of these men range from 10 to 12 feet tall
and over, weighing
from 500 to 600 lbs.
Gympie
At Gympie, Queensland, a large
fragment of the back portion of a jaw which
still possessed the hollow for a
missing lower back molar tooth was
discovered. The owner of the tooth would
have stood at 10 feet tall.
Blue Mountain
In the Megalong Valley
in the Blue Mountains NSW, a depression found in
ironstone protruding from a
creek bank was the deeply impressed print of a
large human-like foot. This
footprint measures 7 inches across the toes.
Had the footprint been complete
it would have been at least 2 feet in
length, appropriate to a 12 foot
human. The largest footprint found on the
Blue Mountains must have belonged
to a man 20 feet tall!
Mulgoa
A set of 3 huge footprints was
discovered near Mulgoa, south of Penrith,
N.S.W. The prints, each measuring
2 ft 7 inches across the toes, are 6 ft.
apart, indicating the stride of the
12 ft. giant who left them.
Macleay River
Noel Reeves found near
Kempsey, N.S.W. monstrous footprints were discovered
in sandstone beds on
the Upper Macleay River. One print shows toe 4 inches
long and the total
toe-span is 10 inches suggesting that the owner of the
print may have been
17 feet tall.
Aborigine
Aborigine themselves admit in their
ancient folklore that this land was
inhabited by several groups of men, as
well as giants, before they settled
here.
Austria
Aymon
Aymon, a member of the Archduke Ferdinand's bodyguard, reportedly stood
eleven feet tall. For many years a carved wooden likeness of this giant was
preserved in the Castle of Ambras in the Tyrol Alpines.
Josef
Winkelmaier
An Austrian named Josef Winkelmaier was exhibited in London on
January
10,1887 who claimed a height of eight feet nine
inches.
Bavaria
Belgium
Flanders' Giants
In his
Origines Antwerpianoe, 1569, and De Gigantomachia, royal physician
Johannes
Goropius Becanus reports that a youth almost nine feet tall and a
woman
about ten feet tall lived near his home in Flanders.
Chile
From account of Captain George Shelvock's 1719 voyage: "M. Frezier
gives us
an account that the Indians inhabiting the continent to the south
of this
island (the island of Chiloe, which lies off the coast of Chile,
about lat.
42 S. and long. about 72 W of London) are called Chronos, that
they go quite
naked, and that in the inland part there is a race of men of
an
extraordinary size, called Cacabues, who, being in amity with the
Chronos,
have sometimes come with them to the dwellings of the Spaniards at
Chiloe.
He adds, that he was credibly informed by several who had been eye
witnesses, that some were about nine or ten feet high.
China
The Chinese, in whose land archaeologists have found some of the
earliest
skeletal remains of giants, insist they once had among them some
men as much
as fifteen feet tall.
Peking Giants
Melchior Nunnez, in his
letters from India, vouches for the fact that China
grew some giants to that
tremendous size. He "speaks of porters who guarded
the gates of Peking who
were of that immense height; and in a letter dated
in 1555, he avers that
the emperor of that country entertained and fed five
hundred of such men for
archers of his guard." George Hakewill, in his
Apologie, 1627, issues a
similar report
Chang Woo Gow
The Chinese giant Chang Woo Gow
showed himself in England in 1865 at the
old Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly. A
courtly gentleman and able scholar, he
was invited to visit the Prince and
Princess of Wales. He stood eight feet
two inches. He was not the tallest in
his family, however, for one sister
measured eight feet four
inches.
Chinese Colossus
Purchaas, in his Pilgrimes, 1625, says
that while he was in China he saw a
man who "was cloathed with a tyger's
skin, the hayre outward, his armes,
head, and legges bare, with a rude pole
in his hand; well-shaped, seeming
ten palmes or spans long, his hayre
hanging on his shoulders."
Cornwall
Cornwall was
known as the Land of the Giants. The Cornish
giants were a six-toed,
six-fingered race, some known to be gentle.
Cormoran and his blind wife
Cormelian lived on St Michael's Mount.
Holiburn of Carn Galva protected
the people of Morvah and Zennor.
Denbras lived in the Towednack
hills.
Myen du lived at Maen Castle near Land's End.
Dynas, a deaf
and dumb giant Treryn, lived in the stronghold of Dinas.
Bolster lived in
Beacon.
Jack the Tinkeard or Jack of the Hammer, perhaps the original
giant-killer, found his fame here.
Antony Payne
By the time
the Cornish giant Antony Payne reached his twenty-first
birthday he already
stood seven feet two inches. After his father, a tenant
farmer at Stratton,
"attached" him to the house of Sir Beville Granville of
Stowe, his landlord,
Tony grew two more inches. For all his size and bulk,
the witty Payne showed
no signs of clumsiness, but awed everyone with his
dexterity and very quick
reflexes. They also say he had the brains to match
the brawn that had thrust
him into the role of a mighty man.
Tregoney Giant
While working in
a new tin mine at Tregoney-on-Fal, in Cornwall, reports
the Annual Register
for 1761, a miner discovered a stone coffin on which
some unrecognizable
characters were inscribed. Inside the ancient
eleven-foot-three-inch casket
he saw the gigantic skeleton of a man, which,
when exposed to the air,
crumbled to dust-except for one tooth, which
measured two and one-half
inches in length.